Empowerment Stop blaming the victim: Look to change other aspects of the system Morgaine (1992) suggests that in this evaluation we must go beyond the "helper as preventer of social ills paradigm" in order to address the entrenched, complex needs of children and families. In a recent article, she argues that prevention can no longer be relied upon to break the cycle of various social ills. Prevention programs have been criticized for their focus on cost effectiveness and for their emphasis on short-term results rather than the facilitation of long- term change (Heller, 1990). In addition prevention models have been deemed inappropriate to handle moral, social, or political problems. Rappaport (1987) argued that the image of people of families in need in the prevention model is one in which they are "child like" in their approach to handling difficulties. This type of view leads to the dev....

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